Sentence examples for catholic domination from inspiring English sources

The first elections held following this reform ended the Catholic domination of Belgian politics.

No Reformation, in other words, and a half-millennium of Catholic domination in which democracy, socialism and nationalism never reached the political agenda.

Malta, the world's last bastion of Catholic domination outside the Vatican, is today riven by bitter hostility as it awaits the results of a fiercely contested referendum on divorce.

For example, in 2000 the Catholic theologian Eberhard Tiefensee identified what he called an "East German folk atheism" which could be argued to constitute a substantial part of a regional identity against West German Catholic domination.

Likewise, while Santorum no longer has to worry (as John F. Kennedy did) about assuaging evangelical fears about Vatican plots and Catholic domination, his candidacy has summoned up an equally perfervid paranoia from secular liberals, who hear intimations of theocracy in his every speech and utterance.

Protestant-Catholic relations have come a long way from the 16th century when some Lutherans thought Ottoman conquest to be better than Catholic domination.

James Mitchell, a professor of government at Strathclyde University, says that, whereas Catholic fear of Protestant domination slightly increased the vote against devolution in the 1979 referendum on a Scottish assembly, no such effect could be detected in last month's devolution referendum.

The underlying forces at work to support national prohibition included antipathy to the growth of cities (the presumed scene of most drinking), evangelical Protestant middle-class anti-alien and anti-Roman Catholic sentiment, and rural domination of the state legislatures, without which ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment would have been impossible.

And the Royal Ulster Constabulary, which many Catholics believe embodied harsh Protestant domination of their people, is being demilitarized, down-sized and made more representative of the province's population mix.

It was a plea by a group of young Hutu priests to the white archbishop of the time to purge the Catholic church in Rwanda of Tutsi "domination".

Some Protestant ministers and prominent laymen expressed fears that a Catholic president would be under the domination of the pope and would not always be free to act in the best interests of the country, charges which Kennedy denied.